An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.